Recent Activity section of Content Indexing Admin page and reindexing Audit logs are not updated when Confluence language is set to non-English
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Summary
The Recent Activity section of the Content Indexing page is not updated when the Confluence language is set to non-English languages (like Deutsch, Suomi, etc.)., and the audit logs pertaining to reindexing are not updated.
Environment
Confluence 8.4+
Diagnosis
After rebuilding the index from the Content Indexing page, the Recent Activity section is blank.
Upon checking the Audit logs, events pertaining to the reindex are not captured. However, the actual reindex process is successful which can be verified from the logs.
Cause
This behaviour is caused when Confluence language is not English. Updates to the Indexing Recent Activity and reindexing audit logs don't occur. This is a knownbug and can be tracked below:
Solution
The workaround available currently is to select English as the Confluence language.
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